#1 VMware Backup & Availability

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ delivers Availability for all your virtual, physical and cloud-based workloads — specializing in support for VMware vSphere — from a single management console. It also meets the backup demands for organizations of all sizes to reduce complexity and out-perform legacy backup.

Veeam fully supports VMware vSphere 6.7, providing you with the confidence to successfully upgrade to the latest version of VMware and take full advantage of the most modern technology and functionality available on the market today.

2-in-1: backup and replication

With a single solution and without any additional investments, you can improve your Availability strategies and complement virtual machine (VM) backups with image-based replication. Veeam’s 2-in-1: backup and replication™ for VMware vSphere provides unprecedented levels of Availability and allows you to seamlessly maintain the Veeam 3-2-1 Rule. In addition, there are no agents for you to license, deploy, manage or monitor on your ESXi hosts or VMs.

Role-based access control portal for VMware vSphere

Today, IT environments continue to grow in complexity and budgets remain tight. Because of this, IT is challenged with maintaining aggressive service level agreements (SLAs) for response times to maintain Availability and ensure that employee downtime and data loss are minimized. Veeam’s role-based access control (RBAC) portal helps reduce the total cost of ownership and promote high-speed recovery by establishing the most comprehensive internal self-service backup and restore functionality for VMware vSphere environments.

Veeam’s RBAC portal helps free up IT resources by:

Delegating roles and privileges to users to easily create, restore and monitor assigned backup jobs using a simplified Enterprise Manager that pre-defines permission scopes managed by IT

Reducing the labor associated with IT change requests by easily synching permissions made in existing third-party delegation systems to vSphere permissions to provide select individuals within the same permission scope access to vSphere VMs

Leveraging individual accounts or security groups to control the backup storage location and quotas, define backup job settings per account and control or limit job scheduling to maintain Availability

Built-in WAN Acceleration

Achieve higher Availability by copying backups off site to remote storage. Built-in WAN Acceleration lets you get VMware backups off site 50 times faster through the use of caching, variable block length data fingerprinting and TCP/IP protocol optimizations.

BitLooker

Veeam BitLooker™ helps solve the challenge of shrinking backup repository space, which normally leads to an increase in backup storage costs. BitLooker technology reduces backup file size and replication bandwidth usage by up to 20%. This allows you to exclude deleted file blocks and useless files from backups and save backup storage and bandwidth usage.

Scale-out Backup Repository

Veeam’s Scale-out Backup Repository™ simplifies backup job management and delivers efficient use of backup storage by adding an abstraction layer over individual storage devices. You can create a single virtual pool of backup storage and get the freedom to extend capacity by adding more storage devices to the pool when needed.

Enterprise scalability for ROBO deployments

For enterprises with large-scale VMware deployments, Veeam delivers the capability of keeping backup and restore activities local to remote sites, improves recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) and reduces WAN bandwidth consumption for remote offices and branch offices (ROBO). In addition, Veeam Backup & Replication is now available as a standalone console that users can install on their workstations for convenience, ease-of-use and the ability to eliminate Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions to a backup server.

End-to-end encryption

Secure your VMware backups at the source, in-flight and at rest without negative impact on your WAN by using end-to-end AES 256-bit encryption. Be flexible; choose when and where to leverage encryption to best meet your business objectives.

Backup from Storage Snapshots

Backup from Storage Snapshots gives you the ability to back up VMware VMs from the world’s leading storage providers up to 50 times faster. Veeam allows you to create image-based backups and replicas from storage snapshots as often as necessary, even during business hours, with little to no impact to your production environment.

Native tape support

With native tape support, you can archive individual files or entire VMware VM backups to tape, as well as direct restore from tapeNEW. Advanced features include parallel processing between multiple tape drives to improve archiving performance, a global media pool to provide highly concurrent, tape archiving and automatic failover from non-operation libraries and native grandfather-father-son (GFS) retention to increase retention and save on tape consumption.

Enhanced 1-Click restore with self-service recovery*

With 1-Click restore, enterprises can delegate end-user permissions and restore entire VMware VMs in minutes. Powerful delegation options let you safely put restore tasks in the hands of business users, resulting in faster recovery times and decreased burdens on IT staff. 1-Click restore is available in the Enterprise Manager web UI included in Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions.

Instant VM Recovery

Instead of making users wait while you provision storage, restart an entire VMware vSphere VM directly from a backup file and copy it to production with Instant VM Recovery®. You can get a failed VM up and running again in as little as two minutes!

Instant File-Level Recovery

Easily recover guest operating system folders and files from image-level backups, without having to extract them from virtual disks first. Recover files from Linux and Windows VMs, as well as from any of the 17 supported guest file systems.

New! Veeam Cloud Mobility

Data portability is critical for organizations who want to maintain speed, flexibility, and control of their multi-cloud environment. Veeam Cloud Mobility provides simple portability and recovery of any on-premises or cloud-based workloads to AWS, Azure and Azure Stack with just two steps, maintaining business continuity and Availability across multi-cloud environments.

SureBackup and SureReplica

Veeam SureBackup® and SureReplica help you guarantee the recoverability of every backup and every replica restore point, every time. With these Veeam technologies, you can run VMs from VMware vSphere backups and replicas in an isolated virtual lab and automatically test them.

Guest OS file indexing and search

You can quickly pinpoint and recover guest OS files using Veeam Enterprise Manager. Browse and search VM backups for guest OS files and restore them in one click, either to the original location or to a local machine. To enable search capabilities, Veeam Backup & Replication creates an index of VMware VM guest OS files.

Veeam Explorer for Oracle

Get transaction-level recovery of Oracle databases with the newest Veeam Explorer™ for Oracle. Get agentless transaction-log backup and replay to restore Oracle databases to a precise point in time to enable low recovery point objectives (RPOs) for your Oracle workloads.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory

Item-level recovery is easy with Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Active Directory. This FREE tool instantly recovers Active Directory objects, entire containers and organizational units (OU), as well as user accounts and passwords, directly from VMware VM backups. In addition, you can use it to restore Group Policy Objects (GPOs), integrated Domain Name Server (DNS) records and configuration partition objects.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server

Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft SQL Server provides fast transaction-level recovery of SQL databases directly from your VMware VM backups. You can achieve low RPOs by restoring SQL databases to a precise point in time with agentless transaction log backup. You can also easily maintain backup performance requirements with item-level restores via a remote staging server without consuming local backup-server resources.

Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

Veeam Explorer™ for Storage Snapshots allows you to leverage existing snapshot capabilities from the world’s leading storage providers. With Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots, you get significantly lower RTOs through fast recovery of single files or entire VMs without staging or any intermediate steps.

Veeam Cloud Connect replication

Veeam Cloud Connect offers a built-in, affordable and secure cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) through a service provider of your choice. You no longer need to maintain your own secondary site to have reliable, image-based, VMware VM replicas off site. With no complex configurations, Veeam Cloud Connect allows you to failover an entire site or selected VMs from anywhere with just a few clicks. Traffic encryption securely protects all replicated data, both in-flight and on the side of the service provider.

Planned failover

Planned failover allows you to run your site migration or data-center maintenance smoothly with minimal operational impact. Planned failover shuts down the source VMware VM, replicates any changes to the target VM and starts the VM. With no data loss and very little downtime, you can perform your software upgrades and planned maintenance easily!

Real failback

Restore your normal operations after performing a failover in just a few minutes by failing back to the original VMware VM. During a failback operation, changes in replicas are automatically synchronized with the original VM, which eliminates data loss. You can choose either to fail back to the production VM, to a new location or to simply make the replica VM your new production VM.

Fast off-site replication

Veeam's built-in WAN Acceleration for replication makes vSphere replication over the WAN or slow connections up to 50 times faster while reducing bandwidth consumption by up to 20 times compared to copying raw data. Featuring replication from a backup and compressed replica traffic, Veeam Backup & Replication helps you improve replication performance and optimize replication traffic transmission.

Assisted failover

Assisted failover featured by Veeam helps avoid data loss and achieve RPOs of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. If your production VMware VM fails, you can immediately failover to its ready-to-use replica and continue normal operations running on a disaster recovery (DR) site until the issue is resolved. Veeam Backup & Replication maintains a configurable number of restore points for each VM replica. So, for example, if your latest replica point is corrupted due to a software malfunction, you can roll back to a previous valid restore point.

Failover plans

Failover plans provide you with built-in orchestration to enable easy, one-click site failover. To maintain the Availability of interdependent applications, you can create a failover plan for a group of replicated VMware VMs arranged in the right order and then initiate it when needed in just one click. Add VMs from replicas, arrange them in boot order and set a delay for each VM so they don’t start before a previous one starts up.

SureReplica

SureReplica technology helps you automatically test every restore point in every VMware VM replica for recoverability. This technology validates data for consistency, checks replica configuration accuracy and tests it for reliability inside an isolated virtual lab. Currently, SureReplica is available for VMware replication only.

Replication from backups

Veeam Backup & Replication supports replication from your existing backups. By utilizing VM backups as a source for replication, you can remove any impact on your production environment. The entire process is fully automated and no specific configurations or job settings are required. Replication from VM backups saves significant time and reduces the read I/O on the running production VMware VM.